Civil Service Commission
(1) New Jersey
Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or Public Administration, with a minimum of twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in finance, economic, or accounting courses. Please submit a copy of your transcript with your application. Failure to do will result in ineligibility.
NOTE: Foreign transcripts must be evaluated by a recognized evaluation service. Please upload a copy of your evaluation with your application. Failure to do so will result in ineligibility.
NOTE: A valid New Jersey certificate as a Certified Public Accountant or a registration as a Public Accountant issued by the New Jersey State Board of Public Accounts may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree. If you are substituting a certificate or registration for the degree requirement, please submit a copy of your certificate or registration with your application. Failure to do so will result in ineligibility.
Experience: Six (6) years experience in work involving fiscal management. The experience should include work in public finance, auditing, budgeting or accounting. Two (2) years of the required experience shall have been in a supervisory capacity.
Note: A general Bachelor's degree supplemented by a minimum of (21) semester hour credits in finance, economics, or accounting courses and two (2) years of work in public finance, auditing, budgeting, or accounting may be substituted for the specific degree requirement. If you are substituting a general Bachelor's degree for the speicific degree requirement, please submit a copy of your transcript with your application. Failure to do so will result in ineligibility.
License: Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
The responsibility for ensuring that employees possess the required motor vehicle license, commensurate with the class and type of vehicles they operate, rests with the Appointing Authority.
NOTE: This announcement may be tested via the Management Test Battery, a computer administered exam. For information regarding the Management Test Battery, please refer to our website Civil Service Commission (nj.gov)
PLEASE NOTE: Applications must be completed and submitted by 4:00pm on the closing date.
Customer Care and Technical Support: If you are having difficulty submitting your application online, customer care and technical support are available during regular business hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST, Monday - Friday, excluding holidays and emergency closings. Please email: OAS.support@csc.nj.gov or call (609) 292-4144. Please note that application support requests received outside regular business hours on the closing date will not change the application filing deadline so PLEASE FILE EARLY.
The current vacancy is in Mercer County. However, the resulting list will be used in all counties for future vacancies.
- NJAC 4A:4-2.3(b) states that all requirements must be met as of the closing date.
- Online applications must be completed and submitted by the closing date listed above.
- You must complete your application in detail. Your score may be based on a comparison of your background with the job requirements. Failure to complete your application properly may lower your score or cause you to fail. NOTE: Auto-fill may cause incomplete information on your application. Please confirm your name, address and phone number prior to submitting your application.
- If an employment list results from this announcement, it may be certified to fill full-time and part-time positions.
- Effective September 1, 2011, the New Jersey First residency law was enacted. Please click here for additional information. In accordance with Public Law 2010 c. 26, Veterans pay a reduced application fee of $15.00 if they have previously established Veteran's Preference with the DMAVA (as defined by NJSA 11A:5-1 et seq). Those claiming Veteran’s Preference but have not yet received approval from DMAVA must pay the full application fee and may request a refund if the claim is approved at least 8 days prior to the issuance of the eligibility list. Please note this reduced fee does not apply to Public Safety titles.
- Application fees submitted via personal check or money order must be postmarked within five (5) business days of submitting your application. If your fee is postmarked after five (5) business days, or is returned as invalid, you will be declared ineligible and denied admittance to the examination process.
- The Civil Service Commission is increasing its use of emails as a communication tool. Please ensure that your email is always up-to-date so that important information about the testing process is not missed. Please remember to check your junk mail, spam, and clutter for these important messages.